Eating Animals

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer is an extraordinary book!!! It is not one-sided. He looks at ethical farms and good farmers. If there were more ethical and family farms, I would be more likely to eat meat. However, factory farming has taken over. It’s all about the money and how to produce as much meat as possible with as little money as possible. Animals are not treated as living things but as mere objects. Here are some notes I took while reading:

The lights are turned on 20 hours a day so that the egg-laying hens think it is Spring.

Peta would rather euthanize a dog than have it living its life in a kennel.

“When we walk around thinking we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it’s corrupting.”

Every turkey sold in every store and served in every restaurant was the product of artificial insemination.

On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime.

Vegetarian diets tend to be lower in saturated fat and cholesterol, and have higher levels of dietary fiber, magnesium and potassium, vitamins c and e, folate, carotenoids, flavonoids, and phytochemicals.